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Meghan Trainor has broken her silence on the celebrity “toxic mom group” controversy sparked by an essay from Ashley Tisdale saying she felt sympathy for her fellow star and revealing she had barely been part of the group at all.
The drama began when Tisdale published a personal essay describing her painful experience within a tight-knit circle of friends. She wrote that she had initially thought she had found her people, “I’ve found my village,” only to later feel shut out from gatherings and social events. Eventually, she walked away entirely, sending the group a message that read: “This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.”
In an interview with Us Weekly published on Wednesday, Tisdale did not name anyone in her essay, but when photos surfaced showing her alongside Trainor and several other women, media coverage quickly drew connections. Trainor soon found herself at the centre of the story despite, she says, having had very little to do with the group in recent times.
“I felt bad for Ashley. I felt bad that she was ever that sad, and I think it was just a lot of miscommunication and confusion. I don’t know what happened, but I wish them all the best,” Trainor said.
She added that Tisdale reached out to her personally after the coverage took off, and that she tried to reassure her. “I was like, ‘It’s all right, girl, like, the world’s a silly, crazy place, and they just want something to talk about,'” she recalled.
Trainor was keen to clarify that her involvement in the group had been minimal. She said she had not seen the other members in roughly a year and had even been quietly excluded from their own communications. “There was a group chat, but, like, eventually they started a group chat without me because I wasn’t there. And I was like, ‘That’s totally fine,'” she said.
While Trainor appeared to take the situation lightly, she acknowledged it had been far harder on others caught up in the fallout particularly those who are not public figures. She described it as a “nightmare” for people suddenly receiving unwanted attention online.
The singer also used the moment to reflect more broadly on the challenges of adult friendship, especially for mothers navigating busy careers. “It’s so hard to make mom friends [in] this season of life,” she said.
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